The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-09-02

you're going to be dumb, I'll be dumb,
too. So none of us spoke to each
other except when we had to. Nice,
wasn't it? Along come George in the
thick of it, and what must he do but
pitch into the women. /, being his
brother, he was sure l was all right,
but | SEE to him: George, you don't
know me; you amt got any idea how
I'm acting But he wouldn't hear a
word of that; he went in and give
Mis- Berry and Louisa terrible talk
ing to, and then l give HIM talking
to and everybody got mad. Why,
George acted as though | was child
to be cuddled and fused over. Well.
he cleared out, and Mis- Berry was
crying and Louisa she had a sort of fit,
and the next day Mis- Berry told me
Louisa had heart-disease and was likely
to die if she got excited. That scarf
me, and yet it put murder in my
heart"
Uncle Eph's pipe had gone out, and
drawing his chair nearer mine he went
on in a low tone:
"Soon as / knowed that Louisa was
likely to die if / yelled at her or
stamped, / just ached to holler and
swear SO as to see if she would drop
dead. | had to struggle night and day
against the temptation. / don't know
what allied me, but | was possessed of
demon, and had to fight so hard to
keep from killing her that the sweat
stood on my face as though was get
ting in hay. I felt myself growing
weaker. 1t was like hanging on to the
side of house and feeling my fingers
slip, and finally / had to leave. | give
the store back to 'em, though, and l
paid off the mortgage on the house
soon after / was married, so Louisa
was comfortably fixed, and then I quit
her. If | had stayed there another
day I'd have killed her sure as a gun.
There was murder in my heart"
just as he brought the melancholy
story of his short married life to a
close [ heard wheels oatside, and
through the window [ saw Uncle
George Groot and his wife and Mary
and the two boys driving into the
yard.
They'll tell you very different, "
said Uncle Uph, hastily. They'll tell
you that Mis- Berry and Louisa are a
dreadful pair, and got my money away
from me and treated me so bad that /
ran home like licked school-boy, but
that amt So They don't understand
me. You see, they never saw but one
side of me-"
All the Groots trooped into the sit
ting-room, and then there was such a
commotion! The unanswered letter
was not only forgiven, but forgotten,
and after telling Aunt Ann Groot that
would stay all night If | could have
the little room in the southeast corner,
| went out with Mary to put the pony
into the stable. Her father had al
ready begun to unharness the pony.
He was big, blue-eyed man, and he
gave ME kiss that made all the horses
prick up their ears.
"Eph been entertaining your" he
said, as he went on unbuckling breech-
ing straps and keeping up traces.
Yes | answered, laughing a little.
"He told me about his marriage
"Made himself out irregular demon, I
suppose Uncle George continued.
Looks like a woman-w orrier, don't
hep Well, the Berrys got pretty much
all his money away from him, SO sup
pose they're satisfied, and since he got
off with his life, we're satisfied, and
there amt any thing more to be said
about it. He escaped by the skin of
his teeth, though. Another week and
those cussed women would have had
him in grave or a lunatic asylum, but
he's picking up now" IN y Post.